Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1887-10-08
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.

The city of Vienna gives Mozarts
niece a pension of one dollar and
twenty-five cents month. "'.sa
A collection of butterflies owned
by Herman Stricken, of Reading, Pa,
is valued at thirteen thousand dollars.
Thomas Anderson, of West Haven.
Conn, and his brother, of Flushing, L.
l., are the last of the Mohawk Indians
Thomas is ninety-six years old and as
vigorous as a much younger man.
A contemporary Of Charles Lamb
describes him as having "a face OF
quiyering sweetness, nervous, remu
lous and so slight of frame that he
looked only fit for the most placid for
tune"
"A lady stood hanging to the strap
of st. Paul horse car when work
ingman in the far corner arose and po-
itely offered his said. II thank you,
said she, "but dislike to deprive the
| only gentleman in the car of his seat
A song sang by Patti during her
last tour of the West was composed by
the fourteen-year-old daughter OF the
State Librarian of Pennsylvania. The
composition was so difficult that the
child was advised to simplify it, but
she refused, and it was sent to the
diva, who sang it with great success.
DR.. Felix L. Oswald declares, In
the North american RerieW, that "in
sixteen European languages, the word
cold has been synonym of an affection
which the absolutely conclusive evi-
dence of physiological facts proves to
be result of vitiated warm indoor air,
and to be durable by cold outdoor
air"
Mrs. Stevenson, wife of the now
famous novelist, is daughter Of Jacob
Vandeglift, one of the pioneers OF In
dianapolis, and is remembered in that
city as a petite, pretty brunette, very
bright, and, withal, very fond of a good
novel. Her first husband was Samuel
Osborne, deputy clerk of the Supreme
Court.
Empress Elizabeth, of Austria, al
ways takes the either with her when
ever she visits her mother, the Duchess
Ludovica, of Bavaria, who is very fond
Of hearing her daughter perform on
that instrument The Empress re-
ceiyed her first instructions in zither-
playing from her father, and subsc-
quenty took lessons of the first masters
of Vienna.
The negroes of Union Point, Ga.
are under the control of a "voudoo"
doctor. A negro died week ago and
the coroner found that belladonna had
been used. From what can be learned
the negro women of Union Point are
completely under the control of the
voudoo doctor, while the negro men
are so fearful of being "tricked" that
they will not divulge any thing.
The late Marshal Pelissier once
+ struck his aid-de-camp in one of those
uncomfortable fits of rage for
which he was notorious. The Of
fer took out his pistol, point
ed it at Pelissier and pressed
the trigger 1t did not 60 off.
"A fortnight's arrest" calmly said
Pclissier. That will teach you not to
keep your arms in such bad ORDER
The Athens (Ga.) Banner has this
success to rc'ate in matrimonial ad-
vertising: "Our readers will remem-
Der that some months since Colonel
Joseph S Baugh. an Oglethrope bach
elor, advertised for wife. He was
deluged with letters from all over the
United States. He distributed several
Of these letters among his bachelor
friends. At least three weddings will
be the result of the correspondence" d"